bank vs tip

bank

noun
  • The ground at the top of a shaft. 

  • An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. 

  • A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap. 

  • Money; profit. 

  • An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse. 

  • The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn. 

  • The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc 

  • A row or panel of items stored or grouped together. 

  • A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard. 

  • An incline, a hill. 

  • A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment. 

  • The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses. 

  • A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. 

  • A branch office of such an institution. 

  • A device used to store coins or currency. 

  • An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank). 

  • A mass noun for a quantity of clouds. 

  • The face of the coal at which miners are working. 

  • An underwriter or controller of a card game. 

  • A set of multiple adjacent drop targets. 

  • A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. 

  • A bench or seat for judges in court. 

  • A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. 

  • In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. 

  • A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods. 

  • A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. 

verb
  • To put into a bank. 

  • To arrange or order in a row. 

  • To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. 

  • To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive. 

  • To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. 

  • To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. 

  • To cause (an aircraft) to bank. 

  • To roll or incline laterally in order to turn. 

  • To form into a bank or heap, to bank up. 

  • To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat. 

tip

noun
  • Rubbish thrown from a quarry. 

  • Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”) 

  • A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf. 

  • A small piece of meat. 

  • A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation. 

  • A recycling centre. 

  • A piece of advice. 

  • The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held. 

  • A very untidy place. 

  • A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. 

  • The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips 

  • An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. 

  • A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown. 

  • An act of tipping up or tilting. 

  • A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour. 

  • A tram for expeditiously transferring coal. 

  • A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front. 

  • The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. 

  • A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. 

  • A prediction or bet about the outcome of something. 

verb
  • (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. 

  • To dump (refuse). 

  • To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. 

  • To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it. 

  • To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. 

  • To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome. 

  • (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn. 

  • To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips. 

  • To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc. 

  • To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor. 

  • To give, pass. 

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